Dominant as ever from Bayern, Alaba's brilliant opener set Bayern away before Mario Götze fired Bayern into the quarter-finals.
The opening half had been all Bayern, as expected, with the away side spending the majority of the game camped deep within their own half. The visitors looked to frustrate Bayern with their organisation. The first chance came after four minutes, Ribery and Alaba exchanged a brilliant one-two and Alaba fired low but Gikiewicz’s tipped wide.
Then, Ribery was involved again, he was picked out by Robben and the Frenchmen cut inside beating the defender but his shot was straight at Gikiewicz who hadn’t been that busy during the course of the first half. Soon after, Lewandowski had two chances in quick succession, he met a corner at the near post but he couldn’t quite divert his shot goalwards. Moments later, he blasted over a chance from the edge of the box.
Braunschweig showed some fight back, however, an incisive break from the visitors , but it came to nothing as Omladic fired well wide of Manuel Neuer’s goal.
Moments before the break, the deadlock was broken. Full Back David Alaba the scorer. Another free kick from the Austrian, he stepped up and curled a fantastic effort into the top right corner. Yet another beautiful strike from Alaba, adding to his collection of magnificent free kick’s, this season.
The hosts leading at the break but could’ve had more than one goal by the half time whistle.
Bayern started the second half all guns blazing after the restart. However, unfortunately the Bavarian’s couldn’t quite get the shots off and they could only create half chances.
Three minutes before the hour mark it was two, Mario Götze samba’s round Decarli before cracking home a thunderbolt. Emphatic goal from Götze to double the hosts lead putting the game seemingly, to bed.
Bayern kept pressing following the goal, Arjen Robben cutting inside with his trademark style but his shot from the edge of the box was right down the throat of Gikiewicz. The tiki-taka football was on show from Bayern, Alonso and Lewandowski exchanged some brilliant passes, Lewandowski chipped through to Alaba who chased the ball, he tried to add to his tally on the night and catch Gikiewicz off-guard but the Braunschweig keeper was alert and comfortably turned it behind.
Then, Bayern fiercely countered, Decarli’s free kick was cleared and Schweinsteiger picked out Alaba on the edge of the box his effort was blocked, the rebound fell to Robben who could only divert the effort over the bar, not the standards we’re used to seeing from the Bundesliga top scorer.
In the remaining minutes, Bayern failed to test Gikiewicz, Alaba’s shot was blazed wide from the edge of the box before Thomas Muller failed to test the keeper with his long range effort.